Steve Chalmers
@fstevenchalmers.bsky.social
Retired person, was in tech industry for 37 years
Self and family got multiple chemical sensitivity from a sick house incident in the mid 1990s
Heretic, with a heretical research hypothesis on the nature of MCS and a dozen other complex chronic illnesses
Self and family got multiple chemical sensitivity from a sick house incident in the mid 1990s
Heretic, with a heretical research hypothesis on the nature of MCS and a dozen other complex chronic illnesses
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What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
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Over at Dame Magazine I wrote about how America's right wing propaganda problem--and our bipartisan refusal to take media reform seriously--might very well be terminal:
America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal | Dame Magazine
America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error....
www.damemagazine.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Over at Dame Magazine I wrote about how America's right wing propaganda problem--and our bipartisan refusal to take media reform seriously--might very well be terminal:
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A 🧵. Back in early 2022, the editorial staff of the Cardiopulmonar Physical Therapy Journal approved the development of a Special Issue on Long Covid, and against all better judgement, I was selected to be its Guest Editor. The Special Issue published today. Here are the contents.
December 30, 2024 at 4:13 PM
A 🧵. Back in early 2022, the editorial staff of the Cardiopulmonar Physical Therapy Journal approved the development of a Special Issue on Long Covid, and against all better judgement, I was selected to be its Guest Editor. The Special Issue published today. Here are the contents.
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Yesterday #LongCovid cost me my job.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
December 19, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Yesterday #LongCovid cost me my job.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS.
My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone.
Long Covid ruins lives.
Concur, as someone who with their family got Multiple Chemical Sensitivity from our sick house crisis 28 years ago, facing a medical profession which chose not to be useful.
But the medical profession made that choice after being misled by carefully funded "research" and special interest lobbying
But the medical profession made that choice after being misled by carefully funded "research" and special interest lobbying
Ignoring reality and claiming simple lifestyle recommendations will “cure” chronic illnesses is one of the most prevalent forms of pseudoscience still entrenched in the medical field.
Cui bono?
Payers of disability income, of course
And I still think this piece is just the latest in a decades long disinformation campaign targeting practicing physicians first, policymakers second, and the general public only third
Getting disinformation written into medical journals is not hard
Payers of disability income, of course
And I still think this piece is just the latest in a decades long disinformation campaign targeting practicing physicians first, policymakers second, and the general public only third
Getting disinformation written into medical journals is not hard
December 5, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Concur, as someone who with their family got Multiple Chemical Sensitivity from our sick house crisis 28 years ago, facing a medical profession which chose not to be useful.
But the medical profession made that choice after being misled by carefully funded "research" and special interest lobbying
But the medical profession made that choice after being misled by carefully funded "research" and special interest lobbying
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It really is true, though, like we are always told, that you should never write an email that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of The New York Times
November 30, 2024 at 2:50 AM
It really is true, though, like we are always told, that you should never write an email that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of The New York Times
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The idea that kids are low risk for post-COVID disability is based on error-riddled, retracted research.
Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far.
COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line.
And you can take action! 🧵
Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far.
COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line.
And you can take action! 🧵
Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids. They Need Help.
Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:57 PM
The idea that kids are low risk for post-COVID disability is based on error-riddled, retracted research.
Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far.
COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line.
And you can take action! 🧵
Long COVID occurs in kids after 10-20% of infections. 6M in the US so far.
COVID denialism is an issue of child welfare. Their future and society’s is on the line.
And you can take action! 🧵
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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 PM
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
I love the "plausible response generator" description
Like a useless customer facing support person at a company, wasting my time but not solving my problem
Also wonder how the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on "AI" over the last decade will be paid for (ad funded, subscription)
Like a useless customer facing support person at a company, wasting my time but not solving my problem
Also wonder how the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on "AI" over the last decade will be paid for (ad funded, subscription)
based on people liking my post about genAI being bad, it seems there's lots of AI hating on bsky, which is great!
but maybe someone has told you that you only think this way because you don't understand the tech, and that's bad, because by understanding genAI you can actually hate it much better 🧵
but maybe someone has told you that you only think this way because you don't understand the tech, and that's bad, because by understanding genAI you can actually hate it much better 🧵
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
I love the "plausible response generator" description
Like a useless customer facing support person at a company, wasting my time but not solving my problem
Also wonder how the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on "AI" over the last decade will be paid for (ad funded, subscription)
Like a useless customer facing support person at a company, wasting my time but not solving my problem
Also wonder how the tens and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on "AI" over the last decade will be paid for (ad funded, subscription)
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1/3 New Video: @GeorgeMonbiot describes the treatment of #MECFS as "The Greatest Medical Scandal of the 21st century". Watch the 27 minute explainer video about the scandal from reframing a recognised neurological illness to the withdrawal of harmful treatments.
November 22, 2024 at 5:56 AM
1/3 New Video: @GeorgeMonbiot describes the treatment of #MECFS as "The Greatest Medical Scandal of the 21st century". Watch the 27 minute explainer video about the scandal from reframing a recognised neurological illness to the withdrawal of harmful treatments.
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This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? | George Monbiot
Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. We must learn all we can from this tragic case, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2024 at 6:39 AM
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Having lived through a bunch of technology cycles since mainframes (and the original flame-out of artificial intelligence) when I was a kid in the 1960s
A business model will emerge which pays for AI
Most of the companies doing AI, or pretending to do AI but just wrapping someone else's, will die
A business model will emerge which pays for AI
Most of the companies doing AI, or pretending to do AI but just wrapping someone else's, will die
yeah… the output is shit and getting worse, that can’t be fixed due to the very design of the product, and the platforms are burning money like there’s no tomorrow. it’ll get turned off eventually.
October 26, 2023 at 6:42 AM
Having lived through a bunch of technology cycles since mainframes (and the original flame-out of artificial intelligence) when I was a kid in the 1960s
A business model will emerge which pays for AI
Most of the companies doing AI, or pretending to do AI but just wrapping someone else's, will die
A business model will emerge which pays for AI
Most of the companies doing AI, or pretending to do AI but just wrapping someone else's, will die
I was 11, walking home from school, crossing a residential street.
School bully drove past on his bicycle, said something in character
I turned without stopping and flipped him off
I tripped over the curb and my face hit the sidewalk, chipping an upper front tooth
I'm 66 now, tooth still chipped
School bully drove past on his bicycle, said something in character
I turned without stopping and flipped him off
I tripped over the curb and my face hit the sidewalk, chipping an upper front tooth
I'm 66 now, tooth still chipped
quote post this with a really foolish injury
one time, I broke my heel trying to do some kinda 3/4 assisted front-flip, barefoot, on a wooden floor, that I had seen Jackie Chan do in Rush Hour 2
one time, I broke my heel trying to do some kinda 3/4 assisted front-flip, barefoot, on a wooden floor, that I had seen Jackie Chan do in Rush Hour 2
October 24, 2023 at 5:42 AM
I was 11, walking home from school, crossing a residential street.
School bully drove past on his bicycle, said something in character
I turned without stopping and flipped him off
I tripped over the curb and my face hit the sidewalk, chipping an upper front tooth
I'm 66 now, tooth still chipped
School bully drove past on his bicycle, said something in character
I turned without stopping and flipped him off
I tripped over the curb and my face hit the sidewalk, chipping an upper front tooth
I'm 66 now, tooth still chipped
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One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.
October 21, 2023 at 12:54 AM
One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.
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Majorities of *Republicans* support climate policies, and have for 15+ years. The primary problem is the political power of the fossil fuels industry.
October 21, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Majorities of *Republicans* support climate policies, and have for 15+ years. The primary problem is the political power of the fossil fuels industry.
Oops, did it again, another long thread (this time applying my heretical hypothesis to PEM in ME/"CFS") buried in a response, which should have been here on my timeline
Again, I'm a heretic, and this is a highly speculative research hypothesis. There's no cure here.
bsky.app/profile/fste...
Again, I'm a heretic, and this is a highly speculative research hypothesis. There's no cure here.
bsky.app/profile/fste...
Just to destroy my credibility, I'm a retired computer designer, with no education or credentials in medicine whatsoever
But I smell a power distribution problem here, where power to cells is of course chemical and not electrical
We use decoupling capacitors on computer motherboards for a reason
But I smell a power distribution problem here, where power to cells is of course chemical and not electrical
We use decoupling capacitors on computer motherboards for a reason
October 12, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Oops, did it again, another long thread (this time applying my heretical hypothesis to PEM in ME/"CFS") buried in a response, which should have been here on my timeline
Again, I'm a heretic, and this is a highly speculative research hypothesis. There's no cure here.
bsky.app/profile/fste...
Again, I'm a heretic, and this is a highly speculative research hypothesis. There's no cure here.
bsky.app/profile/fste...
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JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
September 27, 2023 at 8:02 PM
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
Sharing a strong opinion that the disinformation campaign denying and trivializing #mecfs pivoted in summer 2022 to deny and trivialize #longcovid as well Should have put this on my feed, not as a reply elsewhere
First post, etiquette isn't my strong suit
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First post, etiquette isn't my strong suit
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I think the situation is much, much worse than "mistaken".
I pay a lot of attention to Long Covid, particularly weird forms, as my 30yo daughter's primary caretaker. She got some unknown bug in May 2020 and became very ill with an autoimmune disease (treatable) which is a known post Covid syndrome
I pay a lot of attention to Long Covid, particularly weird forms, as my 30yo daughter's primary caretaker. She got some unknown bug in May 2020 and became very ill with an autoimmune disease (treatable) which is a known post Covid syndrome
October 8, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Sharing a strong opinion that the disinformation campaign denying and trivializing #mecfs pivoted in summer 2022 to deny and trivialize #longcovid as well Should have put this on my feed, not as a reply elsewhere
First post, etiquette isn't my strong suit
bsky.app/profile/fste...
First post, etiquette isn't my strong suit
bsky.app/profile/fste...